Benitez may not be doing a good job... but he does not deserve the vile abuse he is getting from the Chelsea fans

There is a video doing the rounds on YouTube from Chelsea’s visit to Griffin Park on Sunday, and it does not make comfortable viewing for Rafa Benitez. It shows him walking off at half-time to a barrage of abuse from his own fans.

No manager deserves this. Whatever the feelings of Chelsea supporters towards Benitez, dishing this sort of stuff out is disrespectful.

He’s a top manager trying to do his job – admittedly not very well – but give him a break.

Abuse: Rafa Benitez was subjected to torrents of abuse from sections of the Chelsea fans at half time against Brentford

Benitez has won a European Cup at Liverpool, two La Liga titles and a UEFA Cup at Valencia and even the FIFA World Club Cup with a team at Inter Milan who couldn’t stand him.

Those trophies aren’t an accident. They were years in the making at Liverpool and Valencia, even if he got lucky when he took over Jose Mourinho’s Champions League-winning team at the San Siro in 2010.

The venom, the animosity and delivery of the words is so deliberate that it’s remarkable Benitez manages to ignore it.

In the middle of that clip, a lone voice among Chelsea supporters shouts ‘c***’ as Benitez walks off the field alongside substitute Juan Mata.